Janey Waney

by Alexander Calder

YEAR

2025

Janey Waney (1969) by Alexander Calder presents a standing mobile that brings color and motion into sculptural balance.

A twisting red base supports suspended metal elements that shift with the air discs of red, blue, yellow, and white move in a silent choreography. Calder pioneered kinetic sculpture, embracing movement as an essential element of visual art.
The work encourages viewers to move around it, discovering new compositions from each angle.

Its balance of heavy and light, still and shifting, creates a sense of quiet dynamism.

Calder’s forms reflect his lifelong interest in abstraction, geometry, and play, merging engineering precision with poetic simplicity. While monumental in scale, Janey Waney remains approachable and open, transforming public space into a zone of interaction.

With every movement of air or change in light, the sculpture becomes something new—constantly alive, always in conversation with its surroundings.